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J. STREMEL.

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APPUCATION FILED JUNE 5. 1919.

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JOSEPH STREMEL, OF SPOKANE, WASHINGTON, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO KATHERINE SCHOMMERS, 0F SPOKANE, WASHINGTON.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 2, 1919.

Application filed June 5, 1919. Serial No. 301,881.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOSEPH STREMEL, a citizen of the United States, residing at Spokane, in the county of Spokane and State of lVashington, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toys, of which the following is a specification.

-jollity, which will combine an attractive mechanical movement with a striking noise making device to create interest and amusement as well as entertainment, and the invention consists in certain novel combinations and arrangements of parts as will be hereinafter pointed out and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings one complete example of the physical embodiment of the invention is illustrated, the parts be ing combined and arranged according to the best mode I have so far devised for the practical application of the principles of the invention.

Figure 1 is a front elevation View of the toy or device embodying the invention.

Fig. 2 is an edge View of the bar carrying the sound producing devices which are illustrated thereon.

Fig. 3 is a view showing the two actuating bars, broken away, and showing in enlarged form the sound producing devices.

In the preferred form of the invention as illustrated in the drawings I employ a pair of parallel actuating bars 1 and 2 which may be made of wood, metal, or other suitable material, and the free ends of the rods project somewhat beyond the operating ends of the complementary rods and are equipped with hand holds or knobs 3, 3 so that the device may be held in both hands by grasping a knob in each hand and holding the device in front of the person operating it.

At their ends the rods or bars 1 and 2 are pivotally linked together, the pivot points eing indicated at 4, 5, 6 and 7, and the pivotal connecting members being indicated as 8 and 9. The pivotal members are preferably of metal and fashioned in the form of a man, each being provided with a hammer or tappet 10 held uplifted, in position to strike, the form of the man and the hammer and handle being an integral member, and the member in each case forming a pivotal link between the parallel bars. Thus when the knobs are grasped, each in a hand, by pushing and pulling the bars in opposite directions, but simultaneously, they are brought into closer parallelism and then separated with the result that the respective men are caused to alternately swing bodily on their pivots 4; and 6 on the bar 2, toward and away from each other and the center of the toy, giving the appearance of striking successive and alternate blows with their hammers. The swinging hammers or tappets are designed to co-act with a pair of star wheels 11 and 12, fixed on their axles 13 that are journaled in and extend through the actuating bar 2, and the wheels which are preferably of metal have their teeth meshing so that they are turned in opposite directions in unison by the intermittent and successive blows from the hammer or tappets on their teeth. Preferably the wheels are highly colored or otherwise decorated so that their movement and rotation may readily be observed and form an attractive feature of the toy.

The star wheels are held with stability and their movement retarded by the presence of a friction device in the form of a sounding feature involving the utilization of a pair of cam wheels or rack wheels 14 and 15 on the star wheel axles 13, and located at the side of the bar 2 opposite these wheels. The rack teeth or cams are fashioned on the outer face of the rack wheels, and the wheels are of metal, and each provided with a resilient detent as 16 and 17 bearing with frictional contact on its rack wheel and tending to retard its movement. These detents are designed to make a clicking noise as the rack wheels pass under them, and to enhance the clicking sound each detent has a sound box or diaphragm, as 18 and 19 secured to the bar 2, the detent being of course fixed to its sound diaphragm. In the drawings the sound boxes are indicated as metallic disks, corrugated, with concentric circles, and the resilient detents are fastened at the outer faces of the diaphragms. sounding devices may be employed, and other changes may be made, as for instance the outline of the striking members may be variedto imitate other persons, or things, or animals, and the difierent parts of the device Other forms of rack Wheel to produce a sound, as described.

2. In a sounding toy, the combination with the pair of oppositely reciprocable parallel bars and their pivotal striking members, of a pair of intermediate intermeshing star Wheels having axles journaled in one bar and each axle having a ratchet wheel thereon, a pair of sound boxes fixed on the wheel supporting bar, and a resilient detent on each box to :co-act with a ratchet wheel to produce sound as described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature.

JOSEPH STREMEL.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Ifatents, Washington, D. G. 

